> -Original Message-
> From: Doug White [SMTP:dwh...@resnet.uoregon.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 2:46 AM
> To: Doug Rabson
> Cc: FreeBSD current Mailing list
> Subject: Re: priorities
>
> On Fri, 21 May 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
>
> If you
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > It sounds like we can loads of haggling about the names there... The
> > last one is to take out the dependency on errno being greater than
> > zero.
>
> I would actually quite like to keep the possibility of returning an errno.
> It gives the possibili
<
said:
> How do you guarantuee that the errno is positive? Add an assert
> somewhere, like checking whether ENXIO >= PRIORITY_FAIL?
No, we simply define it to be so.
-GAWollman
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On Fri, 21 May 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >> >They just are positive and have always been positive :-)
> >> >
> >> >Changing that (making errnos negative) would break so much code I don't
> >> >even want to think about it.
> >>
> >> >From errno.h:
> >>
> >> #ifdef KERNEL
> >> /* pseudo-errors re
>> >They just are positive and have always been positive :-)
>> >
>> >Changing that (making errnos negative) would break so much code I don't
>> >even want to think about it.
>>
>> >From errno.h:
>>
>> #ifdef KERNEL
>> /* pseudo-errors returned inside kernel to modify return to process */
>> #def
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >> How do you guarantuee that the errno is positive? Add an assert
> >> somewhere, like checking whether ENXIO >= PRIORITY_FAIL?
> >
> >They just are positive and have always been positive :-)
> >
> >Changing that (making errnos negative) would break so mu
>> How do you guarantuee that the errno is positive? Add an assert
>> somewhere, like checking whether ENXIO >= PRIORITY_FAIL?
>
>They just are positive and have always been positive :-)
>
>Changing that (making errnos negative) would break so much code I don't
>even want to think about it.
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:
> > > #define PRIORITY_FAIL-1
> > >
> > > It sounds like we can loads of haggling about the names there... The
> > > last one is to take out the dependency on errno being greater than
> > > zero.
> >
> > I would actually quite like to kee
> > #define PRIORITY_FAIL -1
> >
> > It sounds like we can loads of haggling about the names there... The
> > last one is to take out the dependency on errno being greater than
> > zero.
>
> I would actually quite like to keep the possibility of returning an errno.
> It gives
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:
>
> You set a 'low' priority for the ide match as -100. I suggest we use a
> much lower value for that: -1. With USB we have 15 levels already,
> spaced ten apart (welcome back BASIC :) makes 150.
>
> Has anyone come up with a decent set of levels yet,
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